Senior Network Management Engineer 
Location: US, CA, San Jose
Department: IT
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Equinix is the leading global interconnection platform, accelerating business performance by connecting companies to their customers and partners inside the worlds most networked data centers. More than 4,000 of the worlds most demanding customers trust Equinix to provide a place where they can run their mission-critical applications and grow their businesses.Equinix has a mission to interconnect the world and create a historically significant company in theprocess.

Job description:
THE COMPANY: EQUINIX [NASDAQ:EQIX] Equinix is the leading global interconnection platform, accelerating business performance by connecting companies to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers.   More than 4,000 of the world’s most demanding customers trust Equinix to provide a place where they can run their mission-critical applications and grow their businesses.  Equinix has a mission to interconnect the world and create a historically significant company in the process.Highlights…~$2 billion company with over 3,500 employees worldwide, and quickly growing. Forbes named Equinix the #15 Fastest Growing Technology Company in America. Top notch leadership team with employees dedicated and committed to customers and each other.Equinix Corporate OverviewEquinix Ranked Number 271 Fastest Growing Company in North American on Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500Equinix to Join the NASDAQ-100 IndexOur Vision &amp; HistoryGreen Initiatives – Working Toward a Sustainable Future THE OPPORTUNITY: Senior Network Management EngineerThe Technology Development organization at Equinix is seeking a Senior Network Management Engineer to manage, develop, and support the NMS and OSS systems and tools for our next generation Equinix interconnect platform. Candidates will help continuously optimize existing systems, provide operational management of network quality and availability, and drive overall solutions, engineering practices, and methodologies. They will work on complex problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with business needs.The ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of Ethernet and IP networks, extensive experiences with network management systems (NMS), a deep understanding of OSS applications, and technical comprehension of the following skills:OSI ModelFCAPS ModelOO DesignJava, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP (minimum 2)SNMP v1,v2c,v3Network and application monitoringRDBMSSQLNMS AdministrationSpecifically…Design, develop, test and maintain network monitoring, provisioning, and automation systems, with a specific focus on supporting customer facing network products.Work with Network Architecture, Network Engineering, Software Development, NOC, and IT teams to develop requirements and timelines for new features and integration.Coordinate with Applications and Database teams on database design, protocols and standards of the system.Balance workload across multiple projects according to established priorities.Identify the application of new technologies and processes and provide help to effectively integrate them into Equinix’s products, services and/or operations.May perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.   EXPERIENCE:5+ years of development in at least two of these scripting language: Perl, Python and Ruby.4+ years experience in network monitoring and tools development.4+ years experience with developing web-based applications.4+ years experience working with UNIX-based systems.3+ years experience with OO coding fundamentals.Linux, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, and/or Cassandra experience a plus.BMC Remedy AR system or network monitoring suite such as Monolith a plus.Experience with writing code in at least two languages.Understanding of networking fundamentals and equipment.TCP/IP fundamentals, IP subnetting, SNMP and BGP experience are very desired.Experience with network monitoring systems, Syslog and SNMP.Oracle DB experience a plus.Self-motivated team player.Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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